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The first response from Prince Charles regarding the acceptance of 3 million euros from a Qatari sheikh

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Spokespeople for Britain’s Crown Prince Charles commented today, Monday, on his acceptance of millions of euros in cash from a Qatari sheikh.
Prince Charles’ representatives confirmed that “all the correct procedures have been followed to obtain the sums”, according to the BBC.
A statement issued by the Prince Charles Charitable Fund, Clarence House, stated that the charitable donations received from the former Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, immediately moved to one of the Prince’s charitable societies, which implemented the appropriate governance, and assured us that the following was followed. All correct procedures.
For its part, the Charities Commission said it would consider whether it needed to take any action over the alleged donation of 3 million euros, which Prince Charles received from the former Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim.
The British newspaper “Sunday Times” revealed, on Sunday, that the former Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, handed millions of euros in cash to Prince Charles, between 2011 and 2015.
Prince Charles was said to have received from the Qatari politician a bag containing one million euros in cash for his charitable foundation, and also received the same amount in bundles of banknotes packed in carry-on bags from the royal grocer known as “Fortnum & Mason”.
The Qatari sheikh also personally handed one million euros in cash to Charles during a private meeting at Clarence House in 2015, where the emir immediately handed it over to his aides, who arranged for the money to be transferred entirely to the charity.
In total, Charles reportedly received €3 million in cash for the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim is a controversial figure, and he admitted earlier that, under his leadership of the Qatari government, Qatar “maybe” funded the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda without his knowledge, and he was also called “the man who bought London” after he supervised the Qatari purchase of Harrods and Shard stores. The Olympic Village.

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